Thursday, September 28, 2006

Is 75 Enough?

I know, I know, America is unilaterally waging war against our enemies. We have angered so many that nobody will cooperate with us. I usually like to mention that we lost France as an ally a long time ago and that Japan and India are newly cooperative allies. Then add Britain and Australia as solid allies. Israel, too. Even Arab states help us despite Israel. And Germany and Canada as newly cooperative allies after stepping away for a while. Plus new NATO members like Poland stepping up and smaller NATO countries that have stepped up with troops. Oh, and of course Iraq and Afghanistan. Heck, even Spain helps in Afghanistan and Lebanon. One even has to say that France helps somewhat if they are going in the same direction anyway.

So, what, we've lost Belgium completely?

But I digress.

Let's look at one project with lots of cooperative allies.

We just met with 19 other countries regarding the Proliferation Security Inititative that attempts to shut down traffic in WMD:


The PSI was announced in May 2003 in Krakow, Poland, as an effort for nations to use a variety of robust tools within national and international law to defeat the proliferation of WMD around the world. In June, senior political officials from nearly 70 countries around the globe met in Warsaw to recognize the third anniversary of the initiative and pledge their support for its “Statement of Interdiction Principles.” Today, more than 75 countries support the PSI.


Is 75 enough not to be called a "unilateral" project? All over the world, every day, countries cooperate with us and fight at our side yet still we are called unilateral.

I'm not nuanced enough, clearly.